Re: is VB a VL?

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From: Ian Staples
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 07:05

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In article <C19wF0.BvA.2@cs.cmu.edu> landay+@cs.cmu.edu (James A Landay) writes:
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>Please, describe visual BASIC for us.  Even if it turns out to be a
>visual language (which it probably is by Brad's definition), I am
>not sure this is the appropriate place to ask for technical help
>concerning visual BASIC.
>
I agree.  The places where one often finds stuff on VB are alt.lang.basic
and in the ms-windows groups.  I suspect VB is only "visual" in the sense
that it makes it easy to have all the nice windows, buttons, scroll-bars
etc. of Windows itself in your own Basic programs.


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Subject: Re: is VB a VL?
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